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I don't know numbers, but their APIs have a bad uptime in my experience for some models. Too often failure because of "traffic too high".
by nicce 3mo ago
I don't know numbers, but their APIs have a bad uptime in my experience for some models. Too often failure because of "traffic too high".
- sunaookami 3mo agoYeah I had a trial for AI Pro or whatever it's called and could never use Gemini CLI (when it still existed) because it was constantly "overloaded". Using the API directly (wihtout a subscription) sometimes works but the models are so buggy and the endpoints constantly spew errors that it's not usable. See this forum thread for example: https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/frequent-503-errors-service-unavailable-across-all-models/116450 https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/frequent-503-errors-service-... it started with 503 errors since JANUARY and it's still not fixed. These are "stable" GA models! I HIGHLY doubt that Gemini is overloaded, Google has been bullshitting with their crap models since release. Waste of everyone's time.
- antonvs 3mo agoYou linked to a comment about someone on the free tier. Someone else mentioned preview. I use Gemini daily, on a paid basis. Mostly 3.5 Flash Medium. It’s very good for software development, has a great context window, and pricing is about 1/3rd of Claude Opus. I haven’t experienced availability problems except once or twice, certainly no more often than OpenAI or Anthropic. Seems like the complaints about it are mostly from people moaning about Google not giving them AI for free. Good luck with that.
- nicce 3mo agoMy complaint was about paid API. It was so bad that not using it anymore.